This is a new thread dedicated to links of recent news reports or magazine articles about SETI and SETI@home to act as a repository where people can find them, at least until their web sites drop them.

When posting a link, please include the name of the source (organization and author if applicable) and the title of the article in a format similar to these.

This is a new thread dedicated to links of recent news reports or magazine articles about SETI and SETI@home to act as a repository where people can find them, at least until their web sites drop them.

When posting a link, please include the name of the source (organization and author if applicable) and the title of the article in a format similar to these.

â€œPerhaps there is an object on the ground near the telescope emitting at about this frequency,â€ Korpela says. This could be confirmed by using a different telescope to listen for SHGb02+14a.

Possible fraud
There is also the possibility of fraud by someone hacking the SETI@home software to make it return evidence for an extraterrestrial transmission. However, SHGb02+14a was seen on two different occasions by different SETI@home users, and those calculations were confirmed by others.

Then the signal was seen a third time by the SETI@home researchers. The unusual characteristics of the signal also make it unlikely that someone is playing a prank, Korpela says. â€œAs I canâ€™t think of any way to make a signal like this, I canâ€™t think of any way to fake it.â€

David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. â€Itâ€™s unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it.â€ Bell Burnell agrees that it is worth persisting with. â€œIf they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting,â€ she says.

It is already exciting for IT engineers Oliver Voelker of Logpoint in Nuremberg, Germany and Nate Collins of Farin and Associates in Madison, Wisconsin, who found the signal.

Collins wonders how his bosses will react to company computers finding aliens. â€œI might have to explain a little further about just how much I was using [the computers],â€ he says

Well, in Italy there is no cable TV and it is full of powerful TV antennas. But what they transmit is not exactly what would make me proud of being Italian. So maybe ETs are getting a wrong idea of humans!
Tullio

On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, with little fanfare, the new BOINC-based version of SETI@home was released to the general public. As those of you who have been following our Updates know, BOINC stands for the â€œBerkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing.â€ Its purpose is to spread the credo of distributed computing beyond SETI@home, by making it easy for researchers in all fields to launch their own projects, and tap into the enormous computing capacity of personal computers around the world.

Finally, Astropulse BOINC is not really an independent project, but an extension of SETI@home itself. Run by David Andersonâ€™s and Chief Scientist Dan Werthimerâ€™s group in Berkeley, Astropulse will process the data from the SETI@home sky survey in search of electromagnetic pulses that signify the â€œdying gaspsâ€ of black holes. According to Lebofsky, Astropulse will open to the public participation later this summer.

With two programs already online, and half a dozen others waiting in the wings, BOINC is off to a fast start. Once it resolves its initial growing pains, which are an inevitable part of any innovative ambitious project, BOINC has the potential of transforming the way scientists in all fields conduct complex calculations. SETI@home may not yet have found intelligent aliens in outer space, but it is already transforming the scientific landscape here on Earth.

In the May 2008 issue of Astronomy Magazine - Could changing channels tune into alien civilizations? A vast antenna farm in the Australian Outback may pick up the equivalent of talk radio and TV from other solar systems. Talks about the Murchison Wide-Field Array (MWA) as well as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) in Europe. Also touches on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) slated for construction in either Australia or southern Africa.

I know that SETI already has a project in the works to search for light beams from laser sources.

What if an ET civilization was able to use their own Star, or A Star, for communication purposes?

Perhaps a sort of giant transparent lcd satellite that orbited at just the right distance to maximize broadcast area and regularity. Or perhaps a polarized gas cloud that reacts to an electric charge. Or perhaps a device installed into a Star that allows the user to darken the light purposefully to communicate in a form of binary as we do with fiber optics and electronics.

I think this would be a much easier, simpler and affordable way to have interstellar communication.

What would we do if we knew that extinction was imminant?
Besides do everything we could to survive we would probably want to leave proof of our existence.
Turning your home Star into a memorial would probably be the best way to achieve a long term legacy.

I think we should be looking at the Stars themselves to see if they are speaking to us. They could be dimly blinking a code to us right now like a smoke signal or a flashing light. Also, we should be designing a device that could communicate in this fashion. Perhaps 4 satellites that are orbiting in formation holding a membrane that darkens and lightens with an electric charge.

I know this is a bit of a necro, but the article had this interesting quote at the end:

"Currently, the worldâ€™s most ambitious SETI project is SETI@home, by the University of California, Berkeley, which relies on five million volunteers using their computers to scan data received from the Aercibo telescope and seven other giant telescopes around the world."